PROTESTER: While I Lay On The Ground The NYPD Smashed My Kneecap With Clubs

Around 10:00 p.m. last night — when the city parks officially
closed — people congregated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial at
55 Water Street. The NYPD surrounded the park and told the
protesters to leave the park or be placed under arrest.

Thousands of people then flooded into the streets of Manhattan
and many ended up at Zuccotti park, but on the way things got
chippy with the police on Pearl Street.